If Marx and Bakunin had just given in to their clear mutual attraction and fucked out an ideological successor we could have achieved leftist unity and avoided a whole lot of suffering by now.
It's a reference to Rafael's School of Athens. Plato and Aristotle are in the centre of the painting: Plato is pointing upwards to the realm of ideal forms, and Aristotle is pointing forwards, into the empirical world.
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CarlsIII@kbin.social · 18 pts · 2y
Bit late to be starting a new nft
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 10 pts · 2y
If Marx and Bakunin had just given in to their clear mutual attraction and fucked out an ideological successor we could have achieved leftist unity and avoided a whole lot of suffering by now.
celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 2y
History of mostly Western philosophy apparently
derpo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
The only brown guy up there is Jesus, so it’s a strong argument
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y
Has Avicenna too. But yeah, it's not a very universal overview... 😅
samus12345@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
They made the Greeks awfully white considering how swarthy they tend to be.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 2y
Unironically better than a theory reading list. This fucking rules.
Nerorero@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 2y
Sniff
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y
and sho on and sho on
Deme@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 2y
4/5 where is Camus?
perennial@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
No Adorno, we riot!
RedForFred@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
My exact same thought Also kinda surprised Dennett didn’t make the cut
Rolando@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Can I have this on a t-shirt? I'll give you $9.99.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y
No.
Rolando@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
End of History confirmed.
DessertStorms@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
Why is Aristotle spinning an invisible deck? 😂
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y
It's a reference to Rafael's School of Athens. Plato and Aristotle are in the centre of the painting: Plato is pointing upwards to the realm of ideal forms, and Aristotle is pointing forwards, into the empirical world.
DessertStorms@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
Thanks, I figured there would be some explanation!
ma3ve@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y
Why is Jesus in there between all these historical figures?
samus12345@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Because virtually all scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed.
ma3ve@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Ok I will keep my dumb mouth shut now… thanks for enlightening me.
(Still an atheist tho…)
samus12345@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
That's just historical human Jesus, not fictional son of god Jesus.
ma3ve@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Yeah I got that. I’m not that deluded :D